23rd Texas Legislature


The 23rd Texas Legislature met from January 10 to May 9, 1893, in regular session. All members of the House of Representatives and a portion of the members of the Senate were elected in the 1892 general election.

Sessions

23rd Regular session: January 10, 1893 – May 9, 1893

Officers

State

Senate

House of Representatives

Members

Senate

Members of the Texas Senate for the twenty-third Texas Legislature:
  • Edwin L. Agnew, Democrat
  • Edwin Augustus Atlee, Sr., Democrat
  • Jacob Chesterfield Baldwin, Democrat
  • Thomas Elijah Boren, Democrat
  • Oliver Perry Bowser, Democrat
  • Woodson Heard Browning, Democrat
  • John Walter Cranford, Democrat
  • Miles G. Crowley, Democrat
  • John McCulloch Dean, Democrat
  • James Willis Dickson, Democrat
  • Astyanax M. Douglass, Democrat
  • Demosthenes Franklin Goss, Democrat
  • Robert Autry Greer, Democrat
  • William Oscar Hutchison, Populist
  • Wiley Mangum Imboden, Democrat
  • George Taylor Jester, Democrat
  • John Gallatin Kearby, Democrat
  • Leonidas Socrates Lawhon, Democrat
  • Perry Joshua Lewis, Democrat
  • William Perry McComb, Democrat
  • James Madison McKinney, Democrat
  • James Milton Presler, Democrat
  • James Henry Shelburne, Democrat
  • Friench Simpson, Democrat
  • Emory C. Smith, Democrat
  • Robert E. Steele, Democrat
  • James W. Swayne, Democrat
  • Walter E. Tips, Democrat
  • Benjamin Franklin Whitaker, Democrat
  • James Dinwiddie Woods, Democrat
  • [C. H. Yoakum|Charles Henderson County, Texas|Henderson Yoakum], Democrat

House of Representatives

Members of the Texas House of Representatives for the twenty-third Texas Legislature.
Some districts are multimember or floterial districts.
DistrictRepresentativeCityCountyPartyTook office
1Frank Mitchell BallTexarkanaBowieDemocrat1893
2Daniel Denson DoddLindenCassDemocrat1893
3Thomas David Rowell, Sr.JeffersonMarionDemocrat1893
4Alvin Bosley BakerClarksvilleRed RiverDemocrat1893
5Peter Hammonds RogersMount PleasantTitusDemocrat1893
6Enoch Walter FaganParisLamarDemocrat1893
6Travis Clack HendersonParisLamarDemocrat1893
7William Jordan HoodSavoyFanninDemocrat1889
7James Walter SumnerRandolphFanninDemocrat1893
8John Harmon DillsShermanGraysonDemocrat1891
8William McCarty PeckDenisonGraysonDemocrat1893
8David Edward SimmonsShermanGraysonDemocrat1893
9Jesse Craft MurrellCoesfieldCookeDemocrat1889
10John Milton ChambersMontagueMontagueDemocrat1893
11Samuel Green TankersleyDecaturWiseDemocrat1893
12Robert Lee RagsdaleDentonDentonDemocrat1893
13George Bibb PickettDecaturWiseDemocrat1893
14James Rowland GoughMcKinneyCollinDemocrat1891
14James Lafayette GreerMcKinneyCollinDemocrat1893
15James Stevens SherrillGreenvilleHuntDemocrat1893
16Marshall Hiram GossettKaufmanKaufmanDemocrat1891
17Samuel S. FrazerLone OakHuntDemocrat1893
18Charles Osborne JamesSulphur SpringsHopkinsDemocrat1893
19Thomas Wilson TempletonWinnsboroFranklinDemocrat1891
20Robert A. CainAlbaWoodPopulist1893
21Louis P. WilsonMarshallHarrisonDemocrat1883
22Jonathan Davenport RuddWaskomHarrisonDemocrat1891
23John Frank OnionTylerSmithDemocrat1893
24Edward Willis SmithNoondaySmithDemocrat1893
25Benjamin Franklin PhillipsWest MountainUpshurDemocrat1891
26Gaines B. TurnerHendersonRuskDemocrat1893
27Jeremiah Heath LongCarthagePanolaDemocrat1893
28Levi LloydJacksonvilleCherokeeDemocrat1891
29Benjamin Franklin RogersPalestineAndersonDemocrat1891
30Fielding Harvey BayneCrockettHoustonDemocrat1893
31William James Townsend, Sr.LufkinAngelinaDemocrat1893
32Benjamin A. CalhounChirenoNacogdochesPopulist1893
33James W. TruittCenterShelbyDemocrat1891
34Moses Lycurgus BroocksSan AugustineSan AugustineDemocrat1893
35James Columbus FeaginLivingstonPolkDemocrat1893
36William Hal AldridgeRocklandTylerDemocrat1893
36David Sudduth LindseyWarrenTylerDemocrat1893
37James Alexander BreedingHoustonHarrisDemocrat1893
37John KennedyHoustonHarrisDemocrat1893
38Joseph Green DavisGladstoneWalkerDemocrat1893
38David Henry HamiltonCentraliaTrinityDemocrat1893
39George Preston FinlayGalvestonGalvestonDemocrat1893
39Thomas Henry NolanGalvestonGalvestonDemocrat1893
40Nathan H. HallerBrazoriaBrazoriaRepublican1893
41John Adriance BalloweRichmondFort BendDemocrat1893
42Martin McHenry KenneyBellvilleAustinDemocrat1893
43Daniel Washington JacksonWeimarColoradoDemocrat1893
44Joseph Marion KirkSchulenburgLavacaDemocrat1891
45Charles John Henry MeyerEllingerFayetteDemocrat1893
45Joseph PeterDubinaFayetteDemocrat1891
46James Gray BarbeeWhartonWhartonDemocrat1893
47Nathan E. DeverBrenhamWashingtonDemocrat1893
48Andrew Chastain MurrayCaldwellBurlesonDemocrat1893
49George Turner JacksonUnknownBurlesonDemocrat1893
50David A. McFallAustinTravisDemocrat1893
50Thomas Henry WhelessAustinTravisDemocrat1893
51Edgar Huntley RoganLockhartCaldwellDemocrat1891
52Thomas Jackson FloydElginBastropPopulist1893
53James Andrew GrahamBurnetBurnetDemocrat1893
54William E. BarryNavasotaGrimesDemocrat1893
55Henry Kirk WhiteBryanBrazosDemocrat1893
56L. Travis DashiellJewettLeonDemocrat1893
57Lewis Napeleon BarbeeWorthamFreestonePopulist1893
58Adolphus Samuel HenryBlooming GroveNavarroDemocrat1893
59Thomas Harrison BarronAthensHendersonDemocrat1893
60James Isom MoodyMexiaLimestoneDemocrat1889
61Jonathan Jackson DavisKosseFallsDemocrat1891
62Thomas Stalworth HendersonCameronMilamDemocrat1893
63Romanus TalbotCalvertRobertsonDemocrat1893
64John Wesley AlstonThorntonLimestoneDemocrat1893
65Shelby N. StrangeTroyBellDemocrat1891
65Spencer YoungKilleenBellDemocrat1893
66Seth Phineas MillsWacoMcLennanDemocrat1893
66Robert Henry RogersWacoMcLennanDemocrat1893
67Elbert M. WeeksTurnersvilleCoryellDemocrat1893
68James Andrew BeallWaxahachieEllisDemocrat1892
69James Donnegan GriffinAlvaradoJohnsonPopulist1893
70John Miles KingEnnisEllisDemocrat1893
71James Henry FaubionLeanderWilliamsonDemocrat1893,
72Montague James MooreCameronMilamDemocrat1893
73John Hughes CochranDallasDallasDemocrat1891
73Patrick Henry GoldenDallasDallasDemocrat1893
73A.S. TaylorLancasterDallasDemocrat1893
74Bunyan KingRockwallRockwallDemocrat1893
75Thomas Slater SmithHillsboroHillDemocrat1893
76Oba R. MorrisonHicoHamiltonDemocrat1893
77William Abner FieldsHillsboroHillDemocrat1893
78Thomas Benton MaddoxFort WorthTarrantDemocrat1893
78Elihu NewtonBransfordTarrantDemocrat1893
79Richard Bartow HoodWeatherfordParkerDemocrat1891
80William Ballard WohlfordActonHoodDemocrat1893
81Marion Lafayette GarrettPalo PintoPalo PintoDemocrat1893
82Michael Jefferson BakerCueroDeWittDemocrat1891
83Albert G. KennedyBeevilleBeeDemocrat1893
84James Rogers CockeRanchoGonzalesPopulist1893
85Thomas W. KennedyRio Grande CityStarrDemocrat1893
85William Jarvis RussellBrownsvilleCameronDemocrat1893
86Albert UrbahnLaredoWebbDemocrat1889
87Atkins Jefferson McLemoreCorpus ChristiNuecesDemocrat1893
88Frank Russell GravesHelenaKarnesDemocrat1891
89William Clark McElweeSt. HedwigBexarDemocrat1891
89James Luther SlaydenSan AntonioBexarDemocrat1891
90Thomas A. RodriguezAnchorageAtascosaDemocrat1893
91Blucher Haynes ErskineDerbyFrioDemocrat1889
92Friedrich Wilhelm DorowPipe CreekBanderaPopulist1893
93James FlackLlanoLlanoDemocrat1893
94Joseph Frazer BrownCherokeeSan SabaDemocrat1893
95Thomas Carlos WynnSan AngeloTom GreenDemocrat1893
96Samuel McKay SimmonsEagle PassMaverickDemocrat1893
96William Ward TurneyAlpineBrewsterDemocrat1893
97Ferdinand Carl WeinertSeguinGuadalupeDemocrat1893
98Clarence White MartinJohnson CityBlancoDemocrat1893
98George Thomas McGeheeSan MarcosHaysDemocrat1893
99Joseph Newton ChandlerBluff DaleErathDemocrat1893
100John Thomas CurreyCantonVan ZandtDemocrat1891
101Alfred La Fayette BurlesonComancheComanchePopulist1893
102Jeremiah Rowland DeanLa PlataDeaf SmithDemocrat1893
103Samuel Houston HodgesWichita FallsWichitaDemocrat1893
104William Petit SebastianBreckenridgeStephensDemocrat1893
105James Kyle WesterJacksboroJackDemocrat1893
106Albert Scales HawkinsMidlandMidlandDemocrat1893
107James Franklin CunninghamAnsonJonesDemocrat1893
108Malcolm Leander McFarlandRockwoodColemanDemocrat1893